The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-23

suppression of polygamy in Utah, says
Washington dispatch. The bill passed by the
Senate provided that the Mormon Church
should be governed by trustees appointed by
the President That was an unwise provision,
and in conference 1t has been rejected
The requirement that all marriages in Utah
shall be matters of public and official rec
ord will assist prosecutors in the perform
ance of their duty. The most inn
portant paragraphs of the bill as itnow stands
are those which repeal the charters of the
Mormon Church aud the Mormon Immigra-
ton Society, and instruct the Attorney Gen
eral to proceed in the courts for the recovery
of all the church property which was not ac-
quired in accordance with the laws OF the
United States. Section 1890 of the Revised
Statutes is as follows: "No corporation or as
ISOLATION for religious or charitable purposes
shall acquire or hold real estate in any Terri
tory during the existence of the Territorial
Government OF greater value than $4,000
and all real estate acquired or held by such
corporation or association contrary hereto
shall be forfeited and escheat to the United
States"
by vote of two to one, has decided to report
adversely the nomination of Public Printer
Benedict, and he will probably be rejected
The fight against him, says Washington
special, has been made by tho Typographical
Union through its local Representatives, and
the objections advanced have been many. Mr..
Benedict is not practical printer in the mean-
ing of the law which REQUIRES that the n, man at
He has been the publisher OF a country
newspaper, but never learned tho trade
and never worked at it, although in
his business he has picked up a general
knowledge OF the art. He is not member
Of the union. He has not recognized the
union in the management OF the office and has
got the whole labor element down ON him be-
cause Of some petty indiscretons. He has ap-
pointed TO positions under him rs many as
thirty persons from the town where he lived
when he got this office, n little village in New
York. and has dismissed old and influential
members of the union to give them places. He
has had the big head TO an unlimited extent
and, coming from a little country weekly news
paper Office to be the manager OF the biggest
printing institution in the world, he has an idea
dent of the United states He ha= treated the
Senators like ordinary applicants for office, and
they do not relish such conduct after the defer
entail manners Of Rounds and his staff An
other mistake Benedict has made is TO attribute
all the bad management at the printing office to
the condition in which things were left by his
predecessor. IL could not be expected that a
new man would come in and get on without
friction, and complaint was natural, but Bene-
dict tells every one, and wrote a letter to Con-
gress, charging all the blame TO Rounds, and
the latter has good many friends in the Sem
ate. who have resented this sort Of scapegoat
business. and they are for rejection.
The first pension to a survivor of the
Mexican war, under the recent law, was grant
ed to Senator Williams, of Kentucky
The Secretary of the Interior, in
recommending the establishment of an add
tional pension az ency, in view of the passage
of the Mexican bill, points to New Orleans as
the most suitable location